Europe and annual sunshine hrs; What can you really handle? (recorded, temperatures)
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About the same as the UK then. The sunniest place gets 1903 hours per year, and the cloudiest gets only 894 hours!
A quote (admittedly from Wikipedia):
"The weather station holds the rather dubious accolade of averaging the lowest annual level of sunshine for any low level site in the British Isles, at just over 890 hours a year. Admittedly some of this may be due to the relief of the surrounding area rather than cloud cover obscuring the sun, but nonetheless, the western highlands are typically the cloudiest part of the country, in general not receiving much more than 1100 hours a year".
Somone should calculate daylight loss due to hills so comparisons with more typical sites averaging 1000-1100 can be made.
I read somewhere a while ago that the town of Oberstdorf in the German Alps once got only about 880 hours (or something like that). I think that's the all-time German record. Of course, Oberstdorf is in a mountain valley...
Contrary to the data Rosenn found, the data from the weather site I've been using suggests that Krakow gets a lot(!) more sunshine than I'm getting where I'm at right now...e.g., 9 hours/day in May, 8 hours/day in June and a minimum of 2 hours/day in winter. Isn't there a definitive site for weather data out there that you can really depend on?
According to my data, Warsaw has had 1239 hours of sunshine so far this year. Where I'm at, we've had just 700 hours. That would fit in with what I've always believed: The farther you get away from the North Atlantic (i.e., the farther east you go), the sunnier it gets. However, maybe the site I've been using and what I've been believing is wrong...
Both Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York get about 2,600 hours of annual sunshine while Paris gets about 1700 and London less than 1600. 2,500 hours per year is not "mediterranean" as the above pole would suggest, but rather northeast USA. I live in Paris and the lack of sunshine has really gotten to me after having grown up in Boston and lived in northern Vermont (2000+ hours). Most of the USA gets more than 2,000 hours per year.
I'm now considering a move to Marseille (3,000 hours).
Both Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York get about 2,600 hours of annual sunshine while Paris gets about 1700 and London less than 1600. 2,500 hours per year is not "mediterranean" as the above pole would suggest, but rather northeast USA. I live in Paris and the lack of sunshine has really gotten to me after having grown up in Boston and lived in northern Vermont (2000+ hours). Most of the USA gets more than 2,000 hours per year.
I'm now considering a move to Marseille (3,000 hours).
I suggest you also read some of the threads on comparability of US sunshine measurement with other countries, esp. Canada.
Both Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York get about 2,600 hours of annual sunshine while Paris gets about 1700 and London less than 1600. 2,500 hours per year is not "mediterranean" as the above pole would suggest, but rather northeast USA. I live in Paris and the lack of sunshine has really gotten to me after having grown up in Boston and lived in northern Vermont (2000+ hours). Most of the USA gets more than 2,000 hours per year.
I'm now considering a move to Marseille (3,000 hours).
Boston gets around 2200 hours using the UK method.
Boston gets around 2200 hours using the UK method.
Do you remember a source for that? Or did you just subtract 200 hours based off the US-Canada discrepancy.
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